Exporting current frame with correct aspect ratio

Hi and thanks for viewing my question. I've created a video in Motion 3 using the preset HDV1080i60 which is the preset for the video I'm using in Final Cut. It's a video of images, text elements and a background video that I created from scratch not a video recorded with an hd cam. I export the video and import to Final Cut and everything is great including the correct aspect ratio. When I export current frame from Motion no matter what setting I use it changes the aspect ratio so it isn't in widescreen format anymore. Any suggestions how to export a frame to maintain the widescreen format like it does when I export as a video? Thanks for the help.

Because Motion is exporting with square pixels...
If you have photoshop, you can do the following:
Now make a new image, go to the HDTV 1920x1080 preset, but change the width to 1728 hit OK... Copy and paste your original image from Motion and scale horizontally to fit (helps if snapping is turned on).
+How I arrived to this conclusion...+
I opened the exported still in photoshop, changed the pixel aspect ratio to d1/ntsc widescreen. Made a new image with the HDTV setting, copied and pasted the image into the new ps file, command clicked the layer (which selects the pasted image), went to edit crop. Then I checked the image size and it gave me 1728x1080...

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